Case Study: National Association of Chronic Disease Directors achieves privacy-protected ZIP code health dashboards with Privacy Analytics

NACDD protects ZIP-code health data for 7,000+ professionals with Privacy Analytics

The National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD) faced a challenge in publishing public health dashboards with data at the ZIP code level, a granularity that did not comply with HIPAA's Safe Harbor provision. To ensure the data was both valuable for local public health actions and protected individual privacy, NACDD engaged Privacy Analytics for expert guidance on de-identification.

Privacy Analytics provided a roadmap for compliance by performing a risk determination and recommending a de-identification strategy, including a cell-size rule to protect individuals. This solution enabled NACDD to proceed with developing its public dashboards, providing over 7,000 chronic disease professionals with timely, reliable data to guide health programming decisions and resource allocation. The work also gave NACDD's data contributors confidence in the privacy protections, and the organization plans to engage Privacy Analytics for future needs.

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